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PHP 5 RC 1 released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-develop-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PHP just released the first release candidate of PHP 5 after 4 beta releases. It is considered stable and feature-complete -- so get testing!"

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  1. Re:Power Power Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "As Perl seems to fades into irrelevance?"

    Oh please. All you PHP simpletons are all alike. Imbeciles in its truest form. First off you can't even compare Perl to PHP. Perl is a general purpose progamming language not a simpleton web language such as PHP. So if you're going to put something down at least have proof. PHP is a memory hogging inefficient childs toy. And if you're going to compare PHP to Perl, at least compare it to Mason & mod_perl, you know it's bs when you try to make the odds in your favor trying to compare PHP to CGI. Duh obviously it's a better contender there but not when it comes to Mason & mod_perl. So next time, please go do your research instead of babbling.

    You know being second to last at http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml is not biased. PHP DBI is a joke too. Perl DBI is a fantastic DBI, unlike bleh PHP's.

    Perl > PHP need I say more?

  2. Re:Power Power Power by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because Anonymous Crowhead has declared such! I mean, even if you code it completely correctly, present it correctly, and the code itself is well-organized and formatted and easy to read...Anonymous Crowhead on Slashdot has decided inlining presentation and data is bad design. Let's all change for him.

  3. Re:just too bad by togofspookware · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not troll. This post speaks truth. PHP is the programming language for idiots, by idiots. Here are some reasons:

    Magic quotes: Ick! Yuck! Ugh! Magic quotes BAD!!!

    Pointers: There are none! (The closest its got is variable references, which aren't the same as java/ruby/perl style references/pointers).

    No namespaces! OK, PHP 5 will have namespaces, but for some reason they thought in necessary to use a different delimiter depending on what you're referencing:
    Module::Module::Module verus Module::Module:Class
    WTF? I don't care if it's a module or a class or a string or whatever! I just want to call a method on it!

    Oh, yeah, and magic quotes (they're worth mentioning twice). Ugh! Ick! Yuck! And don't tell me to turn them off in my configuration file. My hosting company doesn't let people screw with that.

    Conclusion: PHP is teh SuX!!!

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    Duct tape, XML, democracy: Not doing the job? Use more.